Tree up to 15 m tall. Leafy twigs 2-5 mm thick, (very) sparsely whitish appressed-puberulous to brownish strigillose or glabrous, with rather large nodal waxy glands; internodes hollow or solid; periderm flaking off. Leaves (sub)distichous or subopposite; lamina subobovate to oblong (to elliptic), 7-24 by 2.5-7.5 cm, slightly asymmetric, subcoriaceous, apex acuminate, base obtuse to subcuneate, margin crenate-dentate towards the apex; upper surface subglabrous or white appressed-puberulous to substrigillose, smooth, lower surface (very) sparsely whitish or brownish strigillose to appressed-puberulous on the main veins, smooth, cystoliths only beneath; lateral veins (4-)6-9 pairs, some or none of them branched or furcate far from the margin, tertiary venation loosely scalariform; waxy glands in slit-shaped extensions of the axils of 1 or 2 lateral veins in the middle of the lamina; petiole (1-)1.5-3.5 cm long, very sparsely whitish strigillose, the epidermis flaking off; stipules 1.5-2.5 cm long, glabrous or brownish strigillose at the base, subpersistent. Figs cauliflorous to flagelliflorous on rather slender (often broom-like) branched and with short subpersistent stipules branchlets on (the lower part of) the trunk, the ultimate branchlets slender (or the fig-bearing branchlets becoming up to 1 m long stolons with up to 5.5 cm long internodes and up to 1.5 cm long subpersistent stipules and terminally normal leaves); peduncle 0.5-3.5 cm long; basal bracts 3, verticillate, 1-2 mm long; receptacle subglobose to obovoid, 1-1.3 cm diam. when dry, (sub)glabrous, up to 0.4 cm long stipitate, (faintly) ribbed, without lateral bracts, colour at maturity unknown, apex flat to concave, ostiole c. 2 mm diam., surrounded by 5 (or 6) erect apical bracts; internal hairs absent.
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